Elvis Costello - 1978-04-15 London
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ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS Roundhouse London, England 15 April 1978 01. Big Boys (Solo) 02. Chemistry Class (Solo) 03. Waiting For The End Of The World 04. No Action 05. This Year's Girl 06. Lip Service 07. Less Than Zero 08. Big Tears 09. Hand In Hand 10. The Beat 11. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 12. Alison 13. Miracle Man (part) 14. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 15. Puimp It Up 16. Watching The Detectives 17. You Beloong To Me 18. Mystery Dance - Phil Lynott on bass 19. Heart Of The City - vocals, Nick Lowe Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Pete Thomas - drums Nick Lowe - bass guitar, vocals 40 years on.................... The penultimate show of the U.K. and Ireland tour takes place at the old railway turntable building in Chalk Farm, London where the band ( with Bruce Thomas safely in place) performed a free warm up gig, prior to the 2nd U.S.A. and Canada tour, as a warm up. 3 days after the final gig, the night after this show, Elvis and the band would be performing in Minneapolis and there was consequently no need of any "warm-up" preparations. There's a little sense of restraint from this recording as though the band are pacing themselves for the last night in the capital and the only slight surprise is a relatively rare outing for Big Tears. Nick Lowe again deputised on bass and get given a token song at the end with Pete again going crazy on the punk thrash of Heart Of The City. It's also apparent that Steve's ability to play along with the bass line on the keyboards helps Nick out, no more noticeably than on Chelsea where the more intricate parts are definitely played in unison or by the keyboards only. There's a slight cut in the instrumental fade of Miracle Man but otherwise intact. My original cassette has definite speed issues, gradually getting faster so a more meticulous preparation was required to keep this is the correct pitch but is as nothing compared to tomorrows show from the bootleg L.P. Accidents ! Lineage : TDK SA C90 cassette>Sony TC WE475 cassette player > Sony CD Recorder W100>CD-R> EAC >Nero 8 for song separation and pitch adjustment>TLH>FLAC
